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- From: beezer@cc.utah.edu (BEEZER)
- Subject: [QUESTION]: PUBLIC-KEYS (ETC) FOR PUBLIC BBS NETWORK
- Message-ID: <12JAN199300513143@cc.utah.edu>
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- Organization: Salt Lick, UT
- Date: 12 Jan 1993 00:51 MST
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- I can see that this kind of thing is discussed alot here, so
- I'd prefer not to rehash old ideas in open forum, please
- respond by email...
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- I would like to advise the author of a large public access
- BBS network of adding public-key encryption to his s/w
- as a regular feature (the BBS could be configured to keep
- individual user's keys on-file by that user).
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- I would like referrals to comprehensive/novice sources
- that could prime me on the issues on hand. A common one
- that comes to mind is, what legal responsiblities/conflicts
- occur in a network setting - and would encryption such
- as RSA (not sure what it stands for) be a perceived threat
- to government such to the point of cracking down on the
- said network?
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- I see the potential for legal abuses, and wonder if
- mandatory storage of user's keys be required to protect
- the sysop's butt... Then again, encrypted communication
- provided by some public access cellular phones could be
- an appropriate model to argue over...
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- Fairly brief summary statements are appreciated, but
- I'm also quite willing to dig for myself with a bit of
- help from the technowizbangs present here.
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